Bueno, asi como dije que no me parece nada mal la adquisición de los Kfir, aun sin el ELTA... debo preguntar (con poco conocimiento en esta area).... ¿Son estas Cacerolas las que ultimamente han causado tanta conmoción? ¿Donde estan los tan cacareados MBT, VEC, VIC, LAV o como se llamen?
Viendolos asi por encima, me hace preguntarme ¿Acaso Colombia es Irak, que requiere vehiculos blindados para la lucha urbana? ¿La franja de Gaza y Cisjordania se parecen a las selvas y montañas de Colombia?
Empiezo a comprender los reclamos de Andres Eduardo y de Anderson respecto a que su gobierno esta con la vista fija en extingir a las FARC de la faz de la tierra. Tanto que no tiene ojos (ni tampoco mucho conocimiento) para adquir armamento para la guerra convencional.
Una acotación aparte, ¿Ya vieron como el Ejercito de SriLanka acaba de extinguir por primera vez en decadas (quizas por primera vez en la historia) a la 2da. guerrilla mas grande del mundo? Los Tigres Tamiles (LTTE), acaban de pasar a la historia. Arrinconados en una estrecha extensión de tierra lacustre, al nororiente de la isla, el ejercito nacional los fue reduciendo durante las ultimas semanas y dio de baja al ultimo jefe guerrillero Tamil.
El cuerpo del elusivo lider Tamil, Velupillai Prabhakaran. Luego de ser muerto en los ultimos 800 metros donde menos de 2.000 tigres tamiles habian sido arrinconados y bloqueados desde el mar, en la estrecha faja de playa al nororiente del pais.
Aqui la nota en que los Tigres Tamiles admiten la derrota el 18 de mayo de 2009 luego de una amarga batalla, que da fin a 26 años de guerra civil....
From The Times
May 18, 2009Robert Bosleigh in Colombo and Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent Tamil Tigers admit defeat after battle reaches 'bitter end'The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat yesterday in their separatist struggle
as hundreds of Sri Lankan government troops closed in on a diminishing patch of coconut grove where the last of the rebels — and possibly their elusive leader — were surrounded.
Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the Tigers’ chief of international relations, announced that the rebels were laying down their weapons after 26 years of fighting for an ethnic Tamil homeland. “This battle has reached its bitter end,” Mr Pathmanathan, who is in hiding, said in a statement published on the pro-rebel Tamilnet website.
The statement came one day after President Rajapaksa had declared victory over the Tigers, ending what has been Asia’s longest-running civil war.
Mr Pathmanathan said: “We have decided to silence our guns. Our only regrets are for the lives lost and that we could not hold out for longer.” He added that there were fewer than 2,000 Tigers in the conflict zone — reduced to a few hundred square metres on the northeastern coast — and that more than 3,000 people had died there in the previous 24 hours. The Government denied the claim.
He also said that Velupillai Prabhakaran,
the Tamil Tigers’ leader, was still on the front line and wanted the international community to help to broker a ceasefire.
The Government appeared determined, however, to finish off the Tigers, despite repeated international appeals for a ceasefire and threats of war crimes investigations and other sanctions.
The army said that its troops had found the bodies of 70 Tigers, including two senior leaders. It said it had yet to find Prabhakaran, who has vowed not to be taken alive and is said to carry a vial of cyanide around his neck. There were rumours that he and his son, Charles Anthony, had blown themselves up.
Celebración en las calles de Colombo, la capital de Sri Lanka, luego de que el gobierno declarara la victoria en la guerra de 26 años contra el movimiento rebelde.
In Sri Lanka there were muted celebrations over the apparent death of the Tigers as a fighting force, but fears that a military victory would not mark the end of the violence. Mano Ganesan, a prominent Tamil MP and human rights activist, said: “The war is won but the political conditions [underpinning] Tamil militancy remain undefeated.”
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, a military spokesman, told The Times last night that
the army had avoided a civilian bloodbath by rescuing 62,000 people held by the Tigers as human shields.
A few hundred troops were conducting a “mop-up operation” for the final handful of rebels in an area of just 800 square metres after surrounding them and cutting them off from the sea for the first time on Saturday, he added.
A satellite image of the area released by the military showed the mangled wreckage of several vehicles on fire, billowing thick black smoke and a row of tents. “They were actually defeated some time ago, but they have formally accepted defeat only now,” said Brigadier Nanayakkara.
“They fought for an Eelam [separate state] that they could never win. It was only a waste of lives. They have caused massive death and destruction over the years. Finally they themselves have realised that it is all over.”
Across the country there were sharply contrasting reactions to the bloody climax of a conflict that has cost at least 70,000 lives and crippled Sri Lanka’s economy since 1983.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6305401.ece
Como ven, si se puede derrotar a la guerrilla. En los ultimos dias y cuando solo les quedaban a los tigres tamiles un reducto de algunos metros cuadrados, empezaron a pedir a la comunidad internacional "un cese al fuego", aun desconociendo que usaron a miles de civiles en la zona de guerra, como escudos humanos para defenderse del ejercito (se parecen a algunos FARCsantes conocidos de nuestro vecindario, eh?) pero el ejercito no dio tregua y estuvo determinado a acabar con los tamiles de una vez por todas. Finalmente el Sabado practicaron una operación de barrido donde estaban acantonados los ultimos insurgentes.
Se hallaron 70 cuerpos, incluidos dos de sus maximos lideres. De hecho, ya habian sido derrotados hace algunos dias, pero solo hasta ahora han admitido su derrota, segun declñaro el general Nanayakkara.
Los tigres pelearon por el Ealam (un estado separado) que nunca pudieron ganar. Solo fue un gasto inutil de vidas. Causaron muertes masivas y destrucción a traves de los años. Finalmente se han dado cuenta que todo ha terminado.
Salud.
